De federale overheid van de Verenigde Staten heeft met verschillende New Media Providers aparte Terms of Service afgesproken:
A coalition of federal agencies (led by GSA's Office of Citizen Services) has been working on Terms of Service agreements with a broad range of social media providers who offer free services to users. The objective is to resolve issues with the existing standard Terms of Service (TOS) that are problematic to federal agencies. Having these agreements means that, if an agency chooses to use various social media sites, they won’t have to start from scratch on negotiating a special TOS.De lijst van providers waar afspraken mee gemaakt zijn, is lang en omvat diensten waar ik nog nooit van gehoord heb:
4Q Survey.com: satisfaction measurement tool AddThis: bookmarking and sharing Bing: search BlackBerry App World: mobile app store Blip.tv: video sharing Blogger: blogging Challenge.gov: government challenge platform Cooliris: video and picture browsing Dialogue App: crowdsourcing and ideation Dipity: multimedia timelines Disqus: universal commenting & social discussion Facebook: social networking Feedburner: RSS feed Flickr: photo sharing Foursquare: location-based software GitHub: collaborative software development Google Analytics: website anaytics tool Google Moderator: social commenting & discussion HootSuite: social media dashboard Hulu: video streaming IdeaScale: voting and feedback IntenseDebate: social commenting- LinkedIn: professional networking
MapBox: maps Measured Voice: social media productivity tool Meetup Everywhere: social networking platform Mendeley: social networking platform MixedInk: collaborative writing- My.ComMetrics: tracking and benchmarking of blogs
- MySpace: social networking
OpenCalais: automated metadata Posterous: microblogging- Scribd: social publishing
- Socialtext: internal social networking
- SocialOomph: social media productivity tool
- SocialTwist/TAF4Free: bookmarking and sharing tool
Socrata: data hosting (formerly Blist) SourceForge: open source software development & sharing STCI/VenCorps: challenges, contests and prizes tool Survey Analytics: survey software TubeMogul: video analytics and distribution Tumblr: blogging UserVoice: voting, customer & constituent feedback Ustream.tv: video broadcasting platform Wikispaces: collaboration- WordPress: blogging
- Xtranormal: animated video hosting
- Yammer Inc.: microblogging
YouTube: video sharing ZeeMaps: maps
Met Twitter zijn geen bijzondere afspraken gemaakt, omdat de standaard-afspraken blijkbaar goed genoeg zijn.
Ik heb nog niet de gelegenheid gehad om de verschillen tussen de verschillende overeenkomsten te bekijken. Ergens anders las ik wel het volgende over de Facebook-overeenkomst:
Facebook has specifically agreed to modify the provisions of its terms and conditions to:
- Strike the indemnity clause except to the extent indemnity is allowed by a state’s constitution or law;
- Strike language requiring that legal disputes be venued in California courts and adjudicated under California law;
- Require that a public agency include language directing consumers to its official Web site prominently on any Facebook page; and,
- Encourage amicable resolution between public entities and Facebook over any disputes.
Eerlijk gezegd vind ik deze aanpassingen niet heel spannend, maar misschien ben ik niet juridisch geschoold genoeg om de finesses te doorgronden.
Hamvraag is natuurlijk:
Zou de Nederlandse overheid niet ook aparte gebruiksovereenkomsten moeten afsluiten met Hyves, Facebook, LinkedIn en gelijken?
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